buckwheat cake
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Seven Autopsies on a Battlefield of Mangled Reputations On his first encounter with the buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet how much that is not obvious to the careless ear can be put into "Will you have a buckwheat cake, Mr. Kendall?" or "May I give you a helping of the syrup, Miss Brown?"
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace
When the skillet seethes, and a blubbering hot Tilts the lid of the coffee-pot, And the scent of the buckwheat cake grows plain— O then is the time for a brave refrain!
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
The invalid next concluded to try a cup of coffee, to counteract, as he said, any bad effects that might arise from the tea; and he ventured, also, on some well-buttered buckwheat cake and honey.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
